Redefining the quarter acre section

When your child goes online at any particular moment there are also several million other people online around the globe. Theoretically, your child is able to link with any one of them - thus the image of the World Wide Web. Everyone is connected. Even if your child understands sophisticated programming language, they may not truly understand the scope of the Internet. That is why a young girl in Wellington recently built her own website, posted it on the Net, and included a map of where she lived. She was incredibly savvy about the technology but not about the humans that use, and misuse, it.

Young people, however talented with computers, still need the mature guidance of a parent or guardian on the Internet just as they do when they are learning to drive or to handle alcohol. That guidance, coupled with monitoring of Internet use, can help ensure young people get accustomed to the boundaries of cyberspace safely.